One of the best ways to understand what coaching involves is to read accounts of what happened to people when they went: the problems they came in with, the discussions that were had, and how things changed as a result. What follows are three representative case studies of the coaching process: one individual challenge, one team challenge, and one organizational challenge.

Each case presents multiple variables to assess and consider but will be used to illustrate a central concept. Also, there are dynamics between the coach and client that I will not delve into as this is not a handbook on how to coach but rather a resource to gain a high-level understanding of how coaching works and benefits us.

The names presented here are not the names of actual clients and details have been changed to protect anonymity.

This blog post is part of a series related to The Little Book of Coaching pending publication.